In my school district there are several forts but I know only five of them. The owners of these five forts are Jack McAuliffe, Mr Gentleman, Francis Quilter, William Conway, and the Nuns in Lixnaw. Jack McAuliffe's fort is situated in the townland of Ballintogher, Mr Gentleman's fort is situated in the townland of Ballyhorgan, Francis Quilter's fort is situated in the townland of Lixnaw, William Conway's fort is situated in the townland of Lisoughtra and the Nuns' fort is situated in the townland of Lixnaw. I never heard of any special names given to forts in my district. Some people say that if you stand in one fort you could see another fort a distance away.
There are several stories told about Jack McAuliffe's fort but I have only heard one of them. One night Jack McAuliffe's daughter thought that she had not all the calves put in and she saw a calf

A man named Jim Brosnan who lives in Lixnaw at the present day said that he worked in the making of this road with his horse and car. This road leads from John Pierce's house in Ballinagar to Rattoo. A road which is called the "bog road" in Ballinageragh leads from Ballyhennessy to Irribeg.
There are three old paths in my locality. One of them is going from Ballintoher on by the Monument to Lixnaw village. Another one of them is going from John McAuliffe's fort in Ballintoher to Michael Connell's fort in Ballyhennessy. Another path leads from Kennelly's house in Croughcroneen through the bog to Lixnaw village.
There are two fords in my locality which cross

On last Thursday the 29th of September mass was said in Lixnaw parish chapel in honour of our patron Saint, st Michael, as it was on the twenty-ninth of September, sixty two years ago the first mass was said in Lixnaw chapel.
Ever since a pattern is held in Lixnaw every year.
Very close to the village there is a blessed well, called Saint Michael's well and lots of people go to pay rounds at this well on the pattern day.
There is also a statue erected over the well. When people visit the well three rosaries must be said in nine rounds.

One of the oldest roads in Munster is the road running from Lixnaw to Bannah.
It is made since the time of Brian Boru they say. It was used by the Mac Carthys, chiefs of Lixnaw to draw sand and sea-weed to their estates.
After the coming of the Geraldines Lixnaw was taken by the Fitzmaurices who became earls of it, and they freely used the road hundreds of years. Afterwards they used to travel on it with their carriage and pair of horses as the

Once upon a time there was an old hedge school in Lixnaw. The walls of the school were the of a

My father knows a man in the Lixnaw parish who had his coffin made for twenty years, and died a few years ago.

In almost every townland in Ireland there is gold or [?} some other treasure supposed to be hidden. In the Monument field which is in the townland of Ballintogher there is gold supposed to be hidden by one of the Lords of Lixnaw whose name was Fitzmaurice. It was supposed to be hidden there for safety. In days gone by attempts were made to dig it up by Tom and Michael Behan, Ballintoher, Lixnaw, but they were chased away by a big black bull. The treasure is supposed to consist of a big box of gold pieces and to be worth five thousand pounds.

There is a man named Pat Hanlon living in the townland of Liscullane. He is noted for his wit. He one day got drunk in the village of Lixnaw. On his way home he lay down and slept on the roadside. It happened that Father Hurley, teh present curate in Lixnaw, was passing that way and was shocked to see the man asleep on the roadside. he stopped his car and woke the sleeping man, He soon discovered the Pat was drunk. he then said to him 'What would you do now if the Lord called on you in that state?'
'Well, father' said pat, 'if he did, I would not be able to stir a hand or a foot to go to Him.'
The priest could do nothing but laugh heartily.

a pig he would carry a few puddings and other parts of the pig to a shopkeeper and get goods in exchange. Sometimes when the meat was not worth what he wanted he would give money with it and this would be called "boot". Also people used to work for the shopkeepers and they would get their supplies as payment.
Long ago when a person would get goods and promise to pay for them some other time it was said that he got the "on tick".
The people long ago would not buy anything on the first Monday of the New Year as they believed that if they spent money on that day they would be spending it for the rest of the year. The markets were held in Tralee and Listowel in former times and a butter market used also be held in Lixnaw. The market used to be held in Listowel on Fridays, in Tralee on Saturdays and in Lixnaw on Tuesdays. The markets in Tralee and Listowel are still carried on but the one in Lixnaw is now discontinued.
Men called "pedlars" used to come to this district long ago selling

There is a monument situated on the east side of the village of Lixnaw. It is built on a hill near the railway line. It is built in honour of William Fitzmaurice the earl of Lixnaw. He came from England with an army to fight against the Irish.It is built on a hill and there is a wall around it. There is an underground house in it and it was there William Fitzmaurice was buried. There is a cross on top of the monument

Father Jerry OConnell was P.P. of Lixnaw about 1850. When a student home on vacation his father was building a new dwelling house in Gurtinare, near Lixnaw. The walls of the house were just completed, and the roofing was being put on. The young student was standing on the wall of the building with the Carpenter who was engaged in the roofing. The latter had forgotten his hammer on the opposite wall and was in need of it at the time. He mentioned his need to the young man saying he did not know how he could get it across. The student looked across the intervening space, which was of course the entire width of the house

A great hurling match between the men of Lixnaw & surrounding districts & the men of Kilmoily, Ardfert & surrounding districts
The field selected was a well - chosen one one - large & level. It is called Pártach and is in the land of the Conways at Ballinclogher about half a mile between the contending parties.
The match took place over 80 years ago and was well & fiercely contested, Great crowds from all the surrounding country witnessed it. I was told that after the match the fences all round were almost levelled with the ground everyone trying to get a good view.
The Lixnaw men won taking the ball home and never stopped till they placed it on top of a great mausoleum called "The Monument" where one of the earls of Lixnaw was buried and which lies about a mile to the east of the village.

to look at it, + while he was looking in, they pushed him, + buried him alive.One night Mr. OConnell was salting meat at the house of a Mr. OSullivan about 2 miles from his own house. It was late in the night when he was returning home + he went through the fields + when facing a high fence about 10 feet high a white doe leaped over it in his direction + ran through the field where the Earl of Lixnaw had a chariot Drive from Lixnaw to Deerpark. The doe cleared the fence like a greyhound with one bound and there was no animal like it the place.

In the year of the Geraldines 1655, when the Fitzmaurices came to Lixnaw there were two brothers of them there. The both built a castle in Kerry, one in Lixnaw, whose ruins are still to be seen and the other in an island between Kerry and Clare. It happened one dday that the man of the Fitzmaurices who owned the castle in the island saw the mermaid and they got married. The mermaid made him promise before they got married that no one should ever see her. One day his brother asked him would he marry a certain lady, but he said he would not. His brother asked him why and he said that he could not, that he was married before. His brother then asked him to show him his wife, but he refused. After a while there was a son born and he invited all his companions to the feast which was to last three days. When his brother came, he said he would not believe

The moonlighters were men who were trying to put down the landlords and to prevent men from taking other people's holdings. There was a man living in the locality by the name of Daniel Hayes, and another man by the name of John Moriarty, who was a native of Lixnaw. They were well known in the moonlight movement. They were arrested for the shooting of Jim Fitzmaurice, Ahabeg, Lixnaw, who was shot on the 30th of January 1888. They were sentenced to death at Nenagh, Co. Tipperary and they were brought back to Tralee jail and hanged there on the 9th of March 1888. It only took John Moriarty two minutes to die, and it took Daniel Hayes five minutes to die.

Raymond le gars, a Norman, for services rendered Dermot Mc [?], King of Desmond was rewarded with lands round Lixnaw, Duagh and Knockanure.
Maurice, the son of Raymond settled there and his descendants were known as Fitzmaurices.
Thomas the son of Maurice Fitzmaurice was the first Lord of Kerry. Henry the Marquis of Landsdoune was the 26th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw.
Listowel Castle was built by the ancestors of the present Marquis of Landsdoune into majestic keep still stands sentinel on the banks of the Feale on the S.th side of the Square. Two square towers are connected by an arch of great height.

Lixnaw is not as important now as it was long ago. It was once the chief town in the Barony of Clanmaurice. The ruins of the "Old Courts" are still to be seen at the west of the village. This castle was built by Thomas Fitzmaurice in the 1200. It is derelict since the 1780. It is in the townland of the "Old Courts" in the parish of Lixnaw in the barony of Clanmaurice and in the County of Kerry. It was an important castle long ago and was a beautiful building. It was the home of the Fitzmaurice for many years and they lived a gay and happy life there.
A passing glance is enough to show that it was an enormous structure in its day. The walls at the entrance to the castle were decorated with magnificent statues

gold gone, he got sick and died that night.
Connell then who was only a struggling farmer, purchased a side-car which was rare in those days. He then fully stock his farm, and he bought Lower Muckenaugh for the large sum of £6,500, and also the Paddock Lixnaw, Rabbit-Fort near Ballyduff and the Island Listowel where the present race course is held. His wife was Mc Carthy one of the Mc Carthys of Liscullane.
He got one daughter married to Stack, and two other daughters married to the Sheehans of Lixnaw and another married to Cornelius O'Sullivan, the Old Court. Another one married to tom Connor in Ballincloher farm, and the sixth

he cut the garrison off from the waters and forced a capitulation. Not much now remain of this once great Castle, where according to tradition, culture and refinement found a home, and where there were pleasant water parties on the river and a variety of entertainments. So Lady Kerry wrote that there were only two places in the world worth living in - "London and Lixnaw.
In no part of Kerry is the tragedy of time so forcibly brought to mind as in viewing the remains of former da[?] in Lixnaw. The grassgrown foundations speak eloquently of what had been, and the noisy jackdaws round the old weather beaten tomb point the moral

but was besieged by Wilmot in 1662. It was taken after a short struggle, but only after he had cut off the garrison from the river Brick, which flowed beside the Castle, and from which the garrison got their water supply. In 1550 Thomas Fitzmaurice 16th Earl of Kerry, sat in the Parliament of Philip and Meary. Another Thomas, the 21st Lord or Earl of Kerry married the daughter of an English Sir Wm Perthy, and from them is descended the Marquis of Landsdowne whose eldest son is known as the Earl of Kerry.
Near the Railway Station at Lixnaw is a lofty mound and on top of this mound is a high circular tomb, with a dome shaped roof. This old tomb was built about 1747 and contains the remains of William 2nd Earl of Kerry and 22nd Baron of Lixnaw.